Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Ex-Twitter Boss says to Grab Musk's Attention, Get an Arrest Warrant

Bruce Daisley: "As an ex-Twitter boss, I have a way to grab Elon Musk's attention. If he keeps stirring unrest, get an arrest warrant."

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It cannot be right that Musk can sow discord without personal risk. He's a jetsetter: perhaps fear of unexpected detention will concentrate his mind

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"The way social media is making headlines currently is not without precedent:

a fragile narcissist posting relentlessly on a social network he's made his own.

We know well how this has ended in the past; Donald Trump's furious posts after his election defeat led to the assault on the Capitol on 6 January 2021.

The aftermath of that episode saw the then president suspended from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even, to the dismay of those hoping to mood-board the Mar-a-Lago aesthetic, Pinterest.

This time is likely to be different, not least because the person agitating the social media furor, Elon Musk, owns the platform he is using."

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"I worked at Twitter for most of Trump's presidential term, serving as the most senior executive outside the US.

It was clear from my eight years at the platform that there is something lost in translation between British interpretations of free speech and the arguments parroted by those who adopt a US libertarian interpretation of the concept."

much more at the thread link

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-12 10:16 PM

Don't miss this time.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-12 11:46 PM

One thing that the left can learn from the right.. boycott if the service/product doesn't reflect your values. I stopped using twitter once it became X. I'm patiently waiting for a new platform to emerge that will not have a right wing agenda and reasonable moderation policies and be excepted at large.. and not be owned by ----- narcissists bent on a fascist overthrow of our government. just.. stop... using it. I'll lead by example and be joining one of these: Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads..

#3 | Posted by igashosparks at 2024-08-13 09:09 PM

#3 Exactly.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-08-13 11:49 PM

Elon Musk is an arrogant ass***e but I have a couple of questions for him; how mant Teslas do you think you would have sold without the tZ SUBSIDIES OFFERED TO BUYERS OV evS? wHO MADE THOSE SUBSIDIES THAT MADE THE SUCCESS OF tESLA POSSIBLE? wHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THE U.s. ALLOWED MILLIONS OF cHINESE evS TO FLOW IN AND SELL FOR PRICES LESS THAN 60% OF A tESLA? wHO PREVENTED THAT FROM HAPPENING?
Realise Joe Biden put a 100% taruff on Chinese EVs but if he hadn't there would be millions of those vehicles in America right now and experys who looked at those cars said they were of good quality.
Elon Musk, like others benefiys from ptotextionism and then pretends to be a free trade industrialist. He is actually an anti-organized uniion bebefactor of ptotectionism who enjoys the benefits of it but tries to prevent his employees from enjoying the benefits of organized labor. Do any of you even understand the contradiction?
A little eztra food for thought; if we allowed Chinese EVs in the US without tariffs how do you think that would effect American-Chinese relations and if the could see a huge auto industry growin by marketing to the west instead of the stagnant RussAN ECOBOMT WHO WOULD BE THEIR BWST FRIENDS? aNF, GEO=POKITICALLY, WOULFN'T THAT ISOLATE rUSSIA UNTIL THEY HAD A LEADER WHO REALLY WANTED TO JOIN THE WORLD ECONOMY? pROBABLY NOT pUTIN. aMERICA SHOULD, AY LOMG LAST, HARNESS THE POWER OF CONSUMERISM! It is the most poertful force on the planet. It's stronger than communism people want consumer products and they want the freedom to buy those they want regarfless of where they are made,Without Communist ideology holding them back Russia could have a prosperous middle class. So, what did they do? They put a mrmner of theb KGB in charge and let greedy oligarchs take over. Now we face the same choices here. Elon Musk is such an oligarh who wants to own the EV market anf Joe Biden just helped him with the tariff on EVs from China. Kamala Harris should camcel that on day one and watch zTesla shrink into nothingness and that He needs to learn yhat if you want protectionism it has to include organized labor or else Americans will just demand cheap EVs from China.

#5 | Posted by danni at 2024-08-14 03:00 AM

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